KCRA has the media exclusive on a web exposure breach affecting 14,000 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) providers:
The list includes Medi-Cal providers in 25 California counties, including Amador, Calaveras, Colusa, Nevada, Placer, Sutter, Tuolumne and Yuba.
In an exclusive interview with KCRA 3, state officials from the Department of Health Care Services admitted to posting nearly 14,000 Social Security numbers belonging to Medi-Cal providers working for In-Home Supportive Services.
“This was inadvertent and we sincerely regret this has happened,” said Norman Williams, deputy director for public affairs for the Department of Health Care Services.
The confidential information was available on the state’s Medi-Cal website for anyone to see for a period of nine days, before the mistake was discovered and the numbers removed.
Read more on KCRA.
The state had actually posted a copy of its notification letter to those affected on December 5 on the Attorney General’s breach notice web site.
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